Northeastern University

Faculty Member, Communication Studies and Law & Public Policy

Assistant Professor

Art, Media & Design

About

Greg Goodale is a graduate of George Mason University (BA and MA), the University of Virginia School of Law (JD), and the University of Illinois’ Department of Communication  (PhD) where he researched in Rhetoric and American Studies. A former lawyer, lobbyist, and congressional aide to U.S. Representative Leslie Byrne, Greg continues his interest in democracy and in particular how American citizenship intersects with race, gender, disability, and animality. As a public advocate (mostly for people with disabilities), Greg brings his Washington, DC experience into the classroom and into his scholarship.

Greg co-edited (with Jason Edward Black) the 2010 volume "Arguments About Animal Ethics" and is published "Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age" with the University of Illinois Press (April 1, 2011). Currently he is writing another book, tentatively titled "The Invention of 'Man'." Next up are a co-authored biography of Jane McCrea with Jeremy Engels, a volume about the threat Truth poses to democracy and a second volume in the Arguments About series, this one about abortion. Greg has also authored and co-authored essays in American Quarterly, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Health and Mass Communication.

Greg teaches a wide variety of courses including Legal Argumentation, Argumentation & Debate, Rhetorical Criticism, Persuasion & Rhetoric, Political Communication, Public Speaking and Advocacy Writing and Rhetorical Theory. When he teaches the Advocacy Workshop, he engages his students in the legislative process. Students work with The Home for Little Wanderers to advocate on behalf of foster children. In the process, they meet one-on-one with elected officials and publish press releases about their work. The Advocacy Writing course pairs students with real-life non-profit executives (and the governor of Massachusetts) to produce persuasive materials, including a speech that forms the final project.

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